Elimaea Stål (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) and its relative from China, with description of twenty-three new species Author Liu, Chun-Xiang Author Liu, Xian-Wei text Zootaxa 2011 3020 1 48 journal article 46373 10.5281/zenodo.278679 65b06173-1ac3-44ce-965a-c495e828265d 1175-5326 278679 Elimaea (Rhaebelimaea) tiankengensis Liu C-X, sp. nov. (Plate 8g ,h, 9a–d) Holotype : female, China : Guangxi Prov.: Leye, Tiankeng, 2005. XII.11 , Coll. Zhang Chunguang ( IZAS ). Description: Holotype (female). Tegmen surpassing apex of hind femur; hind wings distinctly longer than tegmen; radius sector branching slightly before middle of tegmen, emitting out 3 branches after basal quarter. Fore coxae unarmed. Fore femur with 6 interior ventral spines; mid femur with 6 exterior ventral spines; hind femur without any ventral spines. Genicular lobes of each femur bispinose. Each tibia dorsally spinose and sulcate. PLATE 9 , Color photograph of Elimaea tiankengensis sp. nov. (a–d), and Elimaea quadrispina sp. nov. (e–k). a, female head and pronotum, lateral view; e, lateral lobe of pronotum of male, lateral view; b, female pronotum, dorsal view; c, female abdominal apex, lateral view; d, female subgenital plate, ventral view; f, male left stridulatory area, dorsal view; g, male abdominal apex, lateral view; h, male abdominal apex, lateral view, i, male subgenital plate, apico-lateral view; j, male subgenital plate, apico-ventral view; k, male subgenital plate, ventral view. Female tenth abdominal tergum with subtruncated apical margin, slightly concave in middle (Plate 8g , 9c). Epiproct long triangular, upcurved (Plate 8g , 9c). Cerci moderately long conical, moderately curved (Plate 8g , 9c). Subgenital plate transverse, lateral corner with a long and a small triangular projection, among which the former as long as half of the subgential plate, middle of apical margin wide triangular projecting (Plate 8h, 9d). Gonangulum of ovipositor with a small ventro-apical appendage pointing laterad. Color: Green. Compound eyes slightly brown. Pronotal disc and dorsal area of lateral lobe of pronotum scattered with numerous dark brown dots (Plate 9a,b); distal half of hind femur scattered with numerous brown dots, and tegminal costal area with numerous scattered slightly brown dots; cells of tegmen between R vein and posterior margin and exposed part of hind wing and abdomen with aggregations of numerous brown dots. Male unknown. Measurement of female (mm): length of body 17.5; length of pronotum 4.2; length of tegmen 32.5; width of tegmen 4.5; length of hind wing 38.1; length of fore femur 11.5; length of mid femur 14.5; length of hind femur 27.5; length of epiproct 1.5; length of cerci 3.0; length of subgenital plate 2.5; length of ovipositor 7.5. Etymology: The name refers to the habitat of this new species – Tiankeng. Discussion: This species resembles most species of the subgenus Rhaebelimaea by the transverse female subgenital plate, but differs by the lateral corner with a long and a small triangular projection, among which the former as long as half of the subgential plate, and middle of apical margin wide triangular. It most resembles E. (Rhaebelimaea) tenuiuscula Gorochov, 2009 , in the spinose projections of the female subgenital plate, but differs by the shape of the subgenital plate. It also resembles E. hunanensis Kang and Yang, 1992 , E. (Rhaebelimaea) pentaspina Ingrisch, 1998 , E. (Rhaebelimaea) orlovi Gorochov, 2009 , E. (Rhaebelimaea) gialai Gorochov, 2009 , E. (Rhaebelimaea) bengkulu Gorochov, 2009 , E. (Rhaebelimaea) ryabovi Gorochov, 2009 , and E. (Rhaebelimaea) abdita Gorochov, 2009 , but differs from them by the details of the lateral and medial projections of the plate. Distribution: China : Guangxi Prov.